All 5 Uses of
apprehension
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —What belongs, queried Mr Bloom bending, fancying he was perhaps under some misapprehension.†
Chpt 16misapprehension = misunderstandingstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misapprehension means wrong and reverses the meaning of apprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
- What comforted his misapprehension?†
Chpt 17 *
- Mr Power gazed at the passing houses with rueful apprehension.†
Chpt 6
- Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market: secondly, apprehension of opposition from extreme circles on the questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses the duke and duchess of York (real) and of His Majesty King Brian Boru (imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and th†
Chpt 17
- Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehension.†
Chpt 17 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come
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(2)
(apprehension as in: apprehension of the criminal) the capture of a criminal
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(3)
(apprehension as in: apprehension of the situation) to understand
or:
in psychology and philosophy: immediate awareness prior to analysis and judgment